The judging panel for 2018 is yet to be decided. See below the 2017 judges.

Julian Birkinshaw

Julian Birkinshaw is Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and Deputy Dean at the London Business School, and Academic Director of the Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Academy of Social Sciences.

Professor Birkinshaw has written thirteen books, including Becoming a Better Boss and Reinventing Management. His new book, out in March 2017, is called Fast/Forward: Make Your Company Fit for the Future.

His research focuses on how large companies can become more innovative and agile in today’s turbulent business environment.

He came 43rd in last year’s “Thinkers 50” ranking of the top global business thinkers.

Luis Cilimingras

Luis Cilimingras is IDEO London's managing director. He is passionate about how technology and communication combine to drive behavioural change.

Since joining IDEO in 2010 Luis has led numerous projects, ranging from electric mobility to FMCG appliances, retail spaces or healthcare.

Luis recently returned to London after starting up an innovation studio for Intercorp, a large Peruvian conglomerate, creating new products, services and experiences for the country's emerging middle class.

An engineer by training, Luis served as head of digital innovation at Fiat Group, where he oversaw the development and launch of Fiat eco:Drive, the first mass-market connected car app.

Charlie Dawson

He established The Foundation in 1999 and it has evolved into a consultancy helping clients solve their most difficult growth challenges by being more effectively customer-led.

To achieve this means bringing together skills usually found separately, in particular customer and business understanding. He was inspired by working on a new car company launch that did this by happy accident to great effect. The firm has long relationships with HSBC, Visa, M&S, O2 and the Volkswagen Group, and recent projects include helping Jaguar Land Rover keep more customers, helping Morrisons find ways to differentiate and compete strongly in future, and helping ebay get better at creating trust.
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He previously worked in advertising and has a first class degree in Manufacturing Engineering from Cambridge.

Adam Gale

There’s little Adam likes more than a good conversation about business. It’s a good thing really, as MT regularly sends its web editor to chew the fat with CEOs, management gurus, academics and coaches. When he’s not chatting with Sir Martin Sorrell about his Latin O Level or musing about multitasking over porridge with Charles Handy, he’s more often than not found ‘deep diving’ into analysis or trying to figure out how to make his computer work. Occasionally covers tech, ironically.

Vimi Grewal-Carr

Grewal-Carr is a managing partner on the UK executive with responsibility for innovation.

As a global lead client service partner, she works with capital market and investment banking clients to help them address their most critical business issues and transform their organisation in response to significant market events.

Her specific expertise includes M&A integration, advising clients on the use of offshoring/near-shoring, building sustainability and transformation plans and technology integration.

Matthew Gwyther

Matthew has edited Management Today for the last 15 years and during this time has won the coveted BSME Business Magazine Editor of the year on a record five occasions. As a freelancer he wrote for the Sunday Times magazine, The Independent, The Telegraph, The Observer, GQ and was a contributing editor to Business magazine.

He was PPA Business Feature Writer of the Year in 2001. He has also worked on drama serials for Channel 4 and BBC. Before becoming a journalist he had a brief and inauspicious spell as a civil servant working at the Medical Research Council in its London Secretariat.

Matthew Gwyther is the co-author of Exposure published by Penguin in London and New York in 2012. He is also a regular presenter on BBC Radio 4 In Business programme.

Sarah Wren

She joined the multi award-winning charity – which supports up to 2,000 people a day and delivers around 500,000 meals to residents’ homes each week – in June 2010. Other services include nutritional screenings and assisting people with physical or mental health problems.

Before joining HILS, Sarah lectured on business and management degree programmes and was chair of some of Hertfordshire’s charities.